Adviser says Romney to release 2011 tax return by October 15

Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney plans to make public his 2011 tax return by October 15, a senior campaign adviser said on Sunday, as President Barack Obama's re-election team pressed its criticism of Romney's decision not to disclose more about his personal taxes.

Close to 90 percent of states saw their unemployment rates rise in July, a potentially worrisome development for President Obama’s reelection campaign.

The Labor Department reported Friday that 44 states in all saw their jobless rate go up, with four states seeing no change at all. Only Idaho and Rhode Island — along with Washington, D.C.— saw their rates drop last month.

The strength of the job market and the economy at large is still expected to play a key role in November’s match-up between Obama and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

Nevada, which continues to have the highest unemployment rate in the country, saw its rate jump back to 12 percent, up from June’s 11.6 percent.

Why can't Obama get his sorry azz off the Golf Course and focus on getting the economy out of his Double Dipsh*t Dive into Recession?

Google Inc. announced Monday that it is cutting some 4,000 jobs in its Motorola Mobility cell phone business and will close or consolidate about a third of the unit’s 90 locations. The job cuts represent 20 percent of Motorola Mobility’s 20,000 employees and 7 percent of Google’s overall workforce. Two-thirds of the cuts will be made outside the US.

News of the latest large-scale layoff comes as the official US unemployment rate remains at 8.3 percent, with 40 percent of the jobless having been out of work for six months or longer. Half a million people have lost extended unemployment benefits since the beginning of the year and another 2 million are slated to be cut off January 1, 2013.

The entrenched unemployment and cut-off of jobless benefits are non-issues in the media and the ongoing presidential election campaign.

The cutbacks at Motorola Mobility come three months after Obama's Google bought the unit for $12.5 billion with a view to cannibalizing the large patent portfolio of the once-dominant US cell phone maker.

In related news, Boy Genius Report (BGR) revealed last week that Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian telecom and wireless company best known for the Blackberry smart phone, would be laying off 3,000 employees beginning this week. BGR’s source reported that “people are terrified” and that workers were emptying their desks in anticipation of being sacked.

RIM said in an official statement:“RIM announced on June 28 that it will reduce its global workforce by approximately 5,000 over the course of the remaining fiscal year. These are difficult but necessary changes to help achieve operational cost savings of over $1 billion.”

Three years after the US government’s declaration that the recession had officially ended, manufacturers across the country continue to shed jobs. The job cuts, coming by the hundreds and thousands, spell misery for the residents of cities and towns, big and small, who have little prospect of finding a decent-paying job in the sluggish economy.

Trane, one of the biggest employers in Tyler, Texas, notified 500 workers on August 3 that it was their last day on the job. The company, a business of Ingersoll-Rand that manufactures air conditioners and heat pumps, described the move as a seasonal layoff of hourly production staff and said employees with recall rights would be eligible to be rehired.

In Lafayette, Indiana, Caterpillar will cut 167 jobs beginning in September. The Lafayette Engine Center produces medium-speed engines for the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment. The company is a major employer in the region, with more than 1,600 workers in the county.

Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Shop-Vac Corp. announced earlier this month that it would be laying off about 200 employees by the end of the year at its Williamsport, Pennsylvania plant. The layoffs will hit production line workers, who will begin losing their jobs October 5. The Shop-Vac facility dates back to 1948.

Whirlpool continues to cut the workforce at its facility in Evansville, Indiana, as the appliance maker shifts all refrigeration product development to Michigan, its home base. Whirlpool currently employs 217 people at its Evansville development center, down drastically from the nearly 10,000 employed at the facility in the 1970s. The center will close down completely by the end of 2014.

In Arkansas, Hawker Beechcraft will lay off 170 employees at its Little Rock aircraft finishing plant. The hourly and salaried workers were given 60 days notice on August 2 of their impending layoffs. Demand for business jets has declined in the recessionary economy.

Hawker Beechcraft filed for bankruptcy protection in May and agreed in July to sell the company to a Chinese firm for $1.8 billion.

In the second largest job cut announcement to hit the Tampa Bay, Florida area this year, PEMCO World Air Services is planning to shed 474 jobs at its aircraft maintenance complex at Tampa International Airport. The layoffs will hit the vast majority of the company’s workforce. The news came after PEMCO lost a major contract with United Airlines.

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization five months ago. A company statement declared,“Although PEMCO’s Tampa facilities will continue operations, these layoffs are expected to be permanent.”

Tax Returns, Please.It was Ronald Reagan who said, "Trust, but Verify."Re his tax returns, Mr. Romney has said, "Trust me."OK.Now for the "Verify" part.Release the tax returns, Mr. Romney.63% of American voters want to see them.And so do I.

Tax Returns, Please.It was Ronald Reagan who said, "Trust, but Verify."Re his tax returns, Mr. Romney has said, "Trust me."OK.Now for the "Verify" part.Release the tax returns, Mr. Romney.63% of American voters want to see them.And so do I.

Tax Returns, Please.It was Ronald Reagan who said, "Trust, but Verify."Re his tax returns, Mr. Romney has said, "Trust me."OK.Now for the "Verify" part.Release the tax returns, Mr. Romney.63% of American voters want to see them.And so do I.

It becomes more and more suspect that revealing his tax returns would put Romney in more trouble than hiding them.

No doubt, if there were something sinister about Romney's tax returns, the IRS would have caught it by now. I am sure many of us saw the slap on the hands received by Charlie Rangel after it became known that he had been skirting tax law for years. IN addition, our esteemed Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner has had his share of woes with improper tax returns. If this were perceived as all that important,Rangel would be in jail and Geithner would have had to pay fines and penalties.

There is something oxymoronic about a president demanding to see his opponents' tax returns when he, himself, was never properly vetted. The day Ryan was chosen to be the VP candidate, his entire family history, back to midwestern farmers, was published on Rootsweb. Yes, Obama wrote an autobiography but what wasn't in it is more important than what was. Since he attended college under the name Barry Sotera, the surname taken from his Indonesian stepfather, the question arises concerning how he paid for his super-expensive education. Did he attend under one of the many programs for foreign students? What was his grade point average? Are there any papers or theses that we might examine?

For the last three and a half years, we have had a president in office about whom we know almost nothing.

Tax Returns, Please.It was Ronald Reagan who said, "Trust, but Verify."Re his tax returns, Mr. Romney has said, "Trust me."OK.Now for the "Verify" part.Release the tax returns, Mr. Romney.63% of American voters want to see them.And so do I.

Attention dgarbage!!! Ronald Reagan was talking specifically about the Soviet Union and certainly not tax returns to satisfy a bunch of losing busy-body, mealy-mouth, pathetic dirty diaper democRats like you. Ronald Reagan released 2 years of returns which is more than enough to satisfy a majority populace that sides with privacy and common sense.America knows who Mitt Romney is and that he is pro business, jobs and prosperity. On the other hand b. h. obama is to business, jobs and prosperity what a drunk farting gasbag is to fine dining. GFY.

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